The Kodak DC50 camera is now usable on the Apple II

Colin Leroy-Mira has just released a new Quicktake for Apple II version, and it is a quite large upgrade.

The program now supports a new camera, the Kodak DC50 Zoom, released in 1996, thirteen years after the Apple IIe. The camera’s custom cable is rather easy to make (and my serial hardware allows to skip making a custom cable altogether). All features are supported (picture download, thumbnail preview, date/name/flash/quality settings, picture deletion).

The camera is able to do 115200bps on the serial port, which makes transfers blazing-fast compared to the Quicktakes!

It has both internal storage and a PCMCIA slot. Mine came with a 6MB storage card, which is a ludicrous amount of storage, allowing for 92 low quality pictures or 36 high quality ones. My program will work with the storage card when it is inserted, and the internal memory otherwise.

See more on colino.net.

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